25 Pct Increase In Per Capita Grants For States Starting 2026

KOTA BHARU, July 22 (Bernama) -- The federal government has agreed to raise per capita grants for all states by 25 per cent, involving an increase of RM548 million starting in 2026, the Kelantan State Legislative Assembly was told today.

Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Mohd Nassuruddin Daud said the new rate was agreed upon during the meeting of Menteris Besar and Chief Ministers held last year.

“On behalf of Kelantan, I put forward a motion to review the per capita grant due to rising costs, and the proposal was agreed to by the Menteris Besar and received a positive response from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

“As a result, the National Finance Council agreed to increase the per capita grants by 25 per cent to RM548 million, effective from 2026 and involving all states,” he said.

He said this in response to a question from Wan Rohimi Wan Daud (PAS–Melor) on the per capita grant to Kelantan, including when the rate was last reviewed and the annual amount received by the Kelantan government over the past 10 years, during the State Assembly sitting at the Kota Darulnaim Complex here.

Elaborating, Mohd Nassuruddin said the newly agreed rates were RM102 per person for the first 100,000 people (previously RM72); RM14 for the next 500,000 (previously RM10.20); RM13.50 for the next 500,000 (previously RM10.40); and RM13 for the remaining individuals (previously RM11.40).

He added that Kelantan had received per capita grants amounting to RM291.06 million between 2015 and 2025.

“The amount comprises RM24.75 million in 2015, RM24.75 million in 2016, RM25.06 million in 2017, RM25.37 million in 2018, RM25.69 million in 2019, RM26.03 million in 2020, RM26.38 million in 2021, RM26.75 million in 2022, RM27.14 million in 2023, RM27.54 million in 2024, and RM28.9 million in 2025,” he said.

-- BERNAMA